Goals

The goals of the AIDA project are to define abstract interfaces for common
physics analysis objects, such as histograms, ntuples, fitters, IO etc.. The adoption of these interfaces
should make it easier for physicists to use different tools without
having to learn new interfaces or change all of their code. Additional benefits
will be interoperability of AIDA compliant applications (for example by making
it possible for applications to exchange analysis objects via XML).

Finally by bringing together the authors of a number of different
applications we expect to gain deeper insight into the strengths and weaknesses
of different applications, and to improve collaboration between different
authors.